A pronunciation training system for Japanese lexical accents with corrective feedback in learner's voice

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3149-3152

  Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Gendrin, Frédéric ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TEACHING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CORRECTIVE FEEDBACKS; FEATURE PARAMETERS; PRONUNCIATION TRAININGS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SYSTEM NOTICES; TD-PSOLA; TRAINING PROCESS; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84994362768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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